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System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InfinityDB vs. JaguarDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

boilerbay.com

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Google

IBM

Boiler Bay Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

2002

2015

Current release

4.0

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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